Packets to (and indeed from) CERN seem to be taking the scenic route via the USA. I'm curious if this is deliberate... walker@heppc046:~$ traceroute www.cern.ch traceroute to www.cern.ch (137.138.144.168), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 138.37.51.254 (138.37.51.254) 0.239 ms 0.172 ms 0.133 ms 2 ebr3.witless.core-net.qmul.ac.uk (138.37.3.196) 0.359 ms 0.290 ms 0.296 ms 3 Te2-2.lond-bar6.ja.net (146.97.40.233) 0.684 ms 0.742 ms 0.740 ms 4 ae2.lond-sbr4.ja.net (146.97.35.137) 0.685 ms 0.651 ms 0.639 ms 5 ae12.read-sbr1.ja.net (146.97.33.141) 2.098 ms 2.159 ms 2.128 ms 6 ae13.lond-sbr3.ja.net (146.97.33.146) 8.198 ms 6.232 ms 6.192 ms 7 janet.rt1.lon.uk.geant.net (62.40.124.197) 3.783 ms 3.773 ms 3.735 ms 8 ae3-vlan110.mx1.lon.uk.geant.net (62.40.98.74) 3.728 ms 3.718 ms 3.722 ms 9 ae0.mx1.ams.nl.geant.net (62.40.98.81) 11.240 ms 11.293 ms 11.297 ms 10 ae0.mx1.fra.de.geant.net (62.40.98.128) 18.069 ms 18.058 ms 18.065 ms 11 ae4.rt1.fra.de.geant.net (62.40.98.135) 18.011 ms 18.035 ms 64.931 ms 12 abilene-wash-gw.rt1.fra.de.geant.net (62.40.125.18) 113.006 ms 113.047 ms 112.805 ms 13 ae-2.10.rtr.clev.net.internet2.edu (64.57.28.162) 120.277 ms 119.935 ms 119.917 ms 14 ae-7.10.rtr.chic.net.internet2.edu (64.57.28.158) 135.090 ms 129.386 ms 129.438 ms 15 e513-a-rbrxl-2-te6.cern.ch (192.91.246.126) 227.000 ms 222.710 ms 223.052 ms 16 * * *